Top 74 Curiosity Learning Quotes
#2. Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.
Josh Hanagarne
#3. Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Richard Feynman
#4. No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor.
Greg Carlson
#6. If you go in thinking that you're smarter than everyone else, you want in a learning very much. If you go in thinking, "I'd sure like to understand this better," you end up doing precisely that.
Alex Gibney
#7. We love to learn because learning feels good. It both satisfies and stimulates curiosity. Reading a good book, having a meaningful conversation, listening to great music - just doing these things make us happy. They have no extrinsic purpose. To give them one takes away from their joy.
Zander Sherman
#8. People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
W. Edwards Deming
#9. Teaching can be learning, especially if student curiosity with the question 'What's going on here?' can be elicited.
Oliver E. Williamson
#10. If you don't keep learning, other people will pass you by. Temperament alone won't do it - you need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.
Charlie Munger
#11. One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.
Jules Verne
#12. It frightens me to imagine the state of learning in this world if everyone had your driving curiosity.
Jerome Lawrence
#13. No doubt, then, that a free curiosity has more force in our learning these things, than a frightful enforcement.
Augustine Of Hippo
#14. It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
Criss Jami
#15. Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#16. I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one's sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.
Jay Woodman
#17. Learning is by nature, curiosity.
Philo
#18. What's the trick? There are three of them: A sense of real purpose, a sense of humor, and a sense of constant curiosity. Keep using those to the grave because learning really never ends.
Liz Carpenter
#19. Doing a documentary is about discovering, being open, learning, and following curiosity.
Spike Jonze
#20. The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
J. Norman Collie
#21. All great acquisitions come from voluntary thought" was Elizabeth's guiding principle. She would not cultivate any motive for learning in her students besides curiosity, claiming that study for the sake of reward or in fear of punishment produced "superficial rather than profound" knowledge.
Megan Marshall
#23. One of the greatest product of a meaningful education is the intellectual curiosity that leads men and women to continued learning and makes them eager to learn as the experience of life reveals areas of ignorance.
M.A. Khan
#24. Curiosity is the great motivator of an education. It's the how of learning: how we go from not knowing something to knowing it inside and out.
Zander Sherman
#25. It is very important to understand why those annoying people annoy you and then figure out where that fits into your world.
Auliq Ice
#26. It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom. Without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail.
Albert Einstein
#27. You should never listen to experts, because in a few years everything they know to be 'true' will be disproven. It's how it's always been, and how it will always be. That's the power of discovery and curiosity.
Elizabeth Naramore
#30. I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.
Winston Churchill
#31. When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.
Douglas Brinkley
#32. Teaching is different today. Teachers don't just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we're ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves.
Tony Danza
#33. I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
Andie MacDowell
#34. I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.
Homer Hickam
#35. I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.
Criss Jami
#36. Many of these new readers were not yet college-educated, but in terms of their seriousness about the world, their own literacy, and above all their ambitions for their children, they might as well have been.
David Halberstam
#37. Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.
Tony Schwartz
#41. It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.
Auliq Ice
#42. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!
Auliq Ice
#43. The writer as boxer says he develops by, "learning from everyone who'll spar with me.
Davis Miller
#44. Unfortunately, I also found out the hard way in my youth. But I guess that's how most learning is done, isn't it?
Karen Ann Wirtz
#45. I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.
Dale J. Stephens
#46. Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory; therefore I was insistently tormented with learning everything by heart.
Catherine The Great
#47. I like the notion of stubborn incuriosity. To cultivate a stubborn incuriosity, you have to limit yourself to certain areas of knowledge. You cannot be totally greedy. You have to oblige yourself not to learn everything. Or else you will learn nothing.
Umberto Eco
#48. Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
Philo Of Alexandria
#49. Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.
Iris Murdoch
#50. A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
Saint Augustine
#51. He was the smartest and best-read person any of us had every known, but he wore his learning so lightly and had such curiosity about other people that he had the ability to make everyone around him feel smart and well-read.
Will Schwalbe
#52. Teaching is the art of serendipity. Each of us has the experience of finding out that something we intended as only the most casual of remarks, or the stray example, changes the way some students thought to the point of changing their lives.
Greg Carlson
#53. Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.
Stephanie Pace Marshall
#54. A playful mind is inquisitive, and learning is fun. If you indulge your natural curiosity and retain a sense of fun in new experience, I think you'll find it functions as a sort of shock absorber for the bumpy road ahead.
Bill Watterson
#55. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#56. It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.
Tove Jansson
#57. There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#58. Certainty is one of the weakest positions in life. Curiosity is one of the most powerful. Certainty prohibits learning, curiosity fuels change.
Liz Wiseman
#60. My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Chesley Sullenberger
#61. Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.
Bob Guccione Jr.
#62. Questions are the natural agents of curiosity. To limit question is unnatural, against nature.
Ted Agon
#64. It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.
Woodrow Wilson
#65. I am defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things.
Ashwin Sanghi
#66. The only way to learn new things is to ask questions and be curious. Find the people who inspire your curiosity because those are the ones you will most learn from.
James Altucher
#67. This experience sufficiently illuminates the truth that free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless,
Augustine Of Hippo
#68. Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law.
Augustine Of Hippo
#69. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.
Auliq Ice
#71. Play allows us to maintain curiosity while learning.
Sarah Lewis
#72. Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.
Todd William
#73. The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.
Aletheia Luna
#74. Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Samuel Johnson
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